Black Elk Quotes
Then a Voice said: 'Behold this day, for it is yours to make. Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see, for there they are taking you.'
Quotes to Explore
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
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If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
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Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.
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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
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If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.
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Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
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Change before you have to.
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Dreams of doing goodFor good-for-nothing people.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.
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Then a Voice said: 'Behold this day, for it is yours to make. Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see, for there they are taking you.'
